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| Israel top spy: Iran bomb possible in 2 years |
| 2011-01-25 |
| Sanctions have not held up Iran's nuclear program and it could produce bombs within two years, Israel's new top spy said on Tuesday, staking out a conservative timeline in the face of rosier U.S. assessments. The remarks by Major-General Aviv Kochavi, chief of military intelligence, also appeared aimed at asserting authority over the rival Israeli espionage agency Mossad, whose departing chief said this month Iran might not have nuclear arms before 2015. "The sanctions have had an impact on the Iranian economy, but they have had no impact on Iran's nuclear program," Kochavi said in his first briefing to an Israeli parliamentary defence panel, according to its spokesman. "The question is not when Iran will have a bomb but rather how much time until the Supreme Leader decides to escalate" uranium enrichment, Kochavi said, referring to a currently low-purity project that Iran says is for peaceful energy needs. "Based on their infrastructure and the technical know-how and uranium they have, within a year or two after he makes that decision, they will have nuclear weapons." The Mossad is not happy about being second-guessed. Maybe they are starting to head the way of the CIA now. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #3 Iran's other advantage is that the US Govt, + mainstream America still believe that POLITICAL DIPLOMACY + DETERRENCE can still stop Iran's nuclear ambitions + agenda in LT; WHEREAS US ALLY ISRAEL BELIEVES IT WON'T HENCE ISRAEL PREFERS THE MIL OPTION TO OCCUR IN THE [very]NEAR-TERM. As corollary, MOUD's comments in the Artics above + Prior once again make it clear that Iran will NOt stop nuclearizing despite any US-Israeli AIR, SPECOPS? STRIKE(S) AGZ ITS NUCPROGS - ONLY A FULL-SCALE GROUND INVASION + OCCUPATION [International = UNSC Mil-forced "Regime Change"]WILL DO IT. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-26 00:01 |
| #2 Again, be it 2012 or 2020, any NUC IRAN will prefer to be on the Media,Diplomatic "Defensive" as it Nuclearizes + devs a reliable, effec NucWeaps Arsenal includ Delivery Systems potent enough to deter andor defeat outside = foreign attack, ee the US-ISRAEL. Iran for time being will prefer to let the MILTERRS be in the forefront of any MIL CONFRONTATION, BRINKMANSHIP + WAR, AGZ THE US-ISRAEL + OTHER. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-25 23:47 |
| #1 ISRAEL + MOSSAD versus * RUSSIA TODAY > POSSESSION OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY A MARK OF LEADERSHIP: IRAN IAEA ENVOY. * SAME > IRAN WILL NEVER STOP ENRICHING URANIUM, irregardless of foreign pressure. * SAME > AHMADINEJAD: [Not]EVEN 100,000 UN SANCTIONS WILL STOP IRAN [Nuc AMbition + objectives]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-01-25 23:40 |